¼ task value token - Great Western Estate ND

Reverse

Plain surface

Edge

Plain

Comment

Uniface - undated token

In 1883 the Great Western Estate was a coffee plantation of 487 acres and 200 acres under tea Cultivation. Owners Dent Brothers & Co. (agent Whittaker & Co). It was situated at Dimbula in the District of Nuwara Eliya, in the Central. Province of Ceylon. This token was issued for Great Western Estate, and represents the Quarter task value of picking a Quarter bag(¼cwt) of clean coffee, or 2¼D. Where 1 Hundredweight (Cwt) equaled to 112 pounds, and the workers of the estate were paid with brass token in the early days when the coffee industry was beginning to raise it's head. The coin is said to represent the quarter task value of picking a quarter bag of clean coffee. This smaller Token is unlisted in Pridmore but is cataloged in 3rd Edition of British Commonwealth Coins by Jerome M. Remick published in 1971.

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